As of Tuesday afternoon, Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey was refusing to make public the interviews that, his lawyer asserts, “vindicate” the governor in the traffic-jam-as-punishment scheme run by his aides.

Throughout its 360 pages, the report on the traffic jam at the George Washington Bridge never states directly that the chairman of the Port Authority refused to speak with Gov. Chris Christie’s own investigators.

As lawmakers prepared to serve 20 subpoenas, Gov. Chris Christie hired a lawyer to conduct an internal investigation of his office following the orchestrated lane closings on the George Washington Bridge.